this november. our law and order panel will dig into that as well as lenient crime policies and the impact they re having on american cities. plus, despite all of president biden s bragging about the economy, brand-new polling does signal that voters aren t exactly buying it. our panel will weigh in on that as well. the sunshine state bracing for a direct hit from its very first hurricane of the season. we ll check in with the fox extreme weather center that is tracking hurricane ian for us. that is coming up in a bit. first, the white house seemingly dodging questions tonight especially when pressed by our own peter doocy if the president believes america s biggest cities are safe. lucas tomlinson is the very latest on which party voters think is tougher on crime. hey, lucas. good evening. one of the major issues concerning voters in the midterm election: crime. violent spikes across the country countries major cities, president biden s former press secretary jen saki gave
hit the worst of ian. will tampa could be ground zero but we begin with chief meteorologist adam klotz weather center in new york with the latest track. good evening, adam. storm continuing to update in the models maybe moving just a little bit. a powerful storm currently a category 3 lifting up into the gulf of mexico, approaching florida and actually some of those outer bands as you said now stretching across all of the florida keys getting up into the sunshine state. that red polygon that is a toned warned storm typically see on the east side of the storm. tornado watch linger and lift its way up to the north see some of these more isolated tornadoes pop up. we have got plenty of advisories now stretching across the entire state and just in the last hour, the hurricane warnings have been updated now stretching all the way up into orlando as this track has slightly shifted maybe just a little bit to the south and little bit to the east. i will show you that here and we ar
and hurricane irma, which veered at the last second. businesses are putting plywood up on windows. this is an ice cream shot trying to inject some levity, no ice cream for ian. sandbags are on the ground to prevent flooding. that s small potatoes in terms of mandatory evacuations. pinellas county and hillsborough county have about 2.5 million people collectively. the whole tampa bay area is 3.2. 75%, 08% of the people are in two counties that have mandatory evacuations. they re looking to move a million-plus people. that process started last night, 2:00 for hillsborough, 6:00 for pinellas. but you ll see the biggest chunks of people fry trying to get out today. the topography of this area, there are bays and inlets, barrier reefs, the bay on one side, the gulf on the other. the water has nowhere to go. storm surge right now certainly the biggest concern as the projections are between 5 and ten feet. for historical context, the last time a major hurricane struck tampa direct
correspondent amy kellogg takes a look at the surge tonight from millan, italy, good evening, amy. it s being called far right government since mussolini and georgia mel lonnie looks said. it is already making history and some waves across the continent. a great day for europe say the continent s other far right leaders, a dark day for italy say center left attracters. georgia meloni says she will do her best to make everyone happy. it s important to understand that if we will be called to lead this country we will do that for all. we will do that for all italians. we will do that with the aim to unify its people. to say underline what unifies it rather than what divides it. m meloni garnered more votes than any other party. meloni will have to form a coalition. she plans to do that with the parties of four time prime minister and fire brand far right lead party leader. the victory of the right comes on heels of swedish voters overturning longstanding center left trad
Administration has been really focused for weeks on this particular concern. particularly as they were preparing for hurricane ian, president biden, making specific reference to the need for these companies not to price gouge during the hurricane when he spoke on wednesday, and then again on thursday. take a listen. for give me, i want to add one more warning. this morning to the gas industry executives. do not, let me repeat, do not, do not use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices and gouge the american people. do not, do not, do not use this storm as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the american public. the price of oil has dropped in recent weeks. the price of gas should be going down as rapidly, it s not. one of the data points that president biden always hammers on this issue is exactly that. they ve seen the price of a barrel of oil fall, but they